H-153, Last P-16 built.
H-155, was the number given to the last P-16 truck that was built and it came out of the Pacific factory in October 1989. This truck was built MacMillian Bloedel Ltd, for Franklin River Division. This truck was lucky to have M&B and Island Pacific Logging as owners as these two Company's and their employees took great care of all their trucks and equipment. This truck after 26 years of hard work is still a good working truck.
H-155 was spec’d out with 91,000 Clark rears 13:1 ratio 60-61 Allison trans KTA 600 Cummins engines. Truck was bought by Hayes Forest in 2003 along with a number of other M&B trucks at the big WEYCO Garage sale. It remained red and white but had the HFS decals on the doors for about 2-3 years. IPL bought her in Jan/2008 along with a number of other trucks from Hayes Forest after they lost the contract with Western Forest products at Franklin. She was still red and white when IPL bought her in 2008. They had her rebuilt and that is when the KTA was removed and the C15 Cat was installed. She was painted yellow and white in the same paint scheme as the rest of the IPL trucks. The truck # was change from H-155 to H-153 at this time
Because of the good shape it was in it was decided by IPL to just leave it alone and run it and just do the maintenance required as things were needed.
The drivers history of H-155 is Driver Jed Ruel got it new and drove it till he retired Then it went through a number of drivers and owners -- M&B, Weyerhaeuser, HAYES FOREST, Then Island Pacific Logging The driver that got her when she came back all rebuilt was Don McInroy . He drove her for a short time then changed jobs and Al Prpich went on her He stayed on her for the duration of her hauling time at IPL. Al Prpich is a very good driver and he really loved that truck. Was a sad day for him when he had to give her up Dec 2015.
Thanks to Steve Dybrough for all the history on this truck and drivers.